This blog continues the discussion that we began with Epic Journey: The 2008 Elections and American Politics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009).The latest book in this series is Defying the Odds: the 2016 Elections and American Politics.

■ Mrs. Clinton regarded emails containing classified discussions about planned drone strikes as “routine.”■ She said she was either unaware of or misunderstood some classification procedures.■ Colin L. Powell, a former secretary of state, had advised her to “be very careful” in how she used email.The F.B.I. documents show that an unnamed computer specialist deleted the archive of Mrs. Clinton’s emails weeks after the existence of the private server became public in March 2015.